In this tutorial, we’re going to cover how to connect to a spreadsheet hosted on Google, display that information inside a React application and deploy it to Netlify. Skip to “The Setup” if you don’t care where the data will be coming from or why I chose to build this…

It’s been a long time coming. Like long… and annoying… and frustrating… but we made it happen! It might be a long read, a lot of it will be code, I wanted to put everything here to serve as a one-stop-shop for anyone who wants to achieve the above. I’ve…

Or how Ruutly came to life — TL;DR; Meteor, after 2 years of using it, is still my go-to. React is awesome. Circa August 2016. Looking back on it now, I realize it wasn’t that long ago, but the past 5 weeks felt dreadful and rewarding at the same time. Staying at the office until 2 AM…

We’ve all been there. No matter what you’re doing with your life right now, I can bet you’ve worked at a coffee shop, or a clothing store, or at a restaurant. …

3 years ago I was in first year at University of Toronto studying Computer Science. This year I would have been graduating but after I finished that year, I decided to stop taking courses and put that part of my life on pause. Today I am a CTO at an…

In my previous article I talked about the new face of Raise Your Flag. I mostly covered the new redesign as well as performance improvement when using React and CDN with a Meteor application. In this article I will talk about how we set up our Nginx server for optimal…

At the end of December 2015 I decided that Raise Your Flag needed a facelift. And I am not just talking about a few cooler styles, I am talking about a full update both on the front-end and on the back-end. Raise Your Flag is awesome careers for people without…

2015 was an amazing year — From spending a month in San Francisco to becoming a co-founder of an awesome startup to traveling to China and trying Bill Clinton’s favourite beer I wanted to start the new year with pretty much my first ever entry and see where this can go. Mind you, English isn’t my…